A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Rogers, Frederick
ROGERS. (Commander, 1831. f-p., 13; h-p., 25.)
Frederick Rogers was born 8 March, 1794. This officer entered the Navy, 14 Jan. 1809, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Royal George 100, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth in the Channel, In the course of the same year he joined the San Josef 110, flagship of the same Admiral at Plymouth, and Africaine 38, Capt. Rich. Raggett, stationed on the coast of North America. Between June, 1810, and April, 1815, he was employed at Newfoundland as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the Antelope 50 and Bellerophon 74, bearing the flags of Sir J. T. Duckworth and Sir Rich. Goodwin Keats; and in Sept. 1815, at which period he was serving with Lord Exmouth in the Mediterranean on board the Boyne 98, he was presented with a commission dated 8 of the preceding March. He then joined, for a few weeks, the Partridge sloop, Capt. John Miller Adye; and was subsequently appointed – 7 June, 1816, to the Jasper 10, Capt. Thos. Carew, stationed in the Channel – 12 July following, to the Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ship of Lord Exmouth, under whom he fought at Algiers – 13 Nov. 1816, to the Impregnable 100, bearing the flag of the same nobleman and of Sir J. T. Duckworth at Plymouth, where he remained, latterly as Acting-Flag-Lieutenant, until April, 1821 – for a short time in Nov. 1828, to the Victor 18, Capt. Geo. Lloyd, from which vessel he was sent to sick-quarters at Teneriffe in consequence of a severe injury occasioned by the fall of a block – and, in Oct. 1830, to the Ganges 84, Capt. Geo. Burdett, on the Mediterranean station. He attained his present rank 3 June, 1831, and has not been since afloat.
Commander Rogers married, in Oct. 1823, Miss Charlotte Bridgeman Willyams, of Breage, co. Cornwall.